Does the urantia papers proofs the simulation theory?

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What about parallel worlds? It is also known as the many world theories from quantum physics.

Wiki Many worlds theories:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-wo ... iverse.%20

Related to the "many worlds theories from quantum physics" is "determinism":

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Determinism

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"Determinism may commonly refer to any of the following viewpoints.

Causal

Causal determinism, sometimes synonymous with historical determinism (a sort of path dependence), is "the idea that every event is necessitated by antecedent events and conditions together with the laws of nature."[5] However, it is a broad enough term to consider that:[6]

...One's deliberations, choices, and actions will often be necessary links in the causal chain that brings something about. In other words, even though our deliberations, choices, and actions are themselves determined like everything else, it is still the case, according to causal determinism, that the occurrence or existence of yet other things depends upon our deliberating, choosing and acting in a certain way.

Causal determinism proposes that there is an unbroken chain of prior occurrences stretching back to the origin of the universe. The relation between events and the origin of the universe may not be specified. Causal determinists believe that there is nothing in the universe that has no cause or is self-caused. Causal determinism has also been considered more generally as the idea that everything that happens or exists is caused by antecedent conditions.[7] In the case of nomological determinism, these conditions are considered events also, implying that the future is determined completely by preceding events—a combination of prior states of the universe and the laws of nature.[5] These conditions can also be considered metaphysical in origin (such as in the case of theological determinism).[6]

Many philosophical theories of determinism frame themselves with the idea that reality follows a sort of predetermined path.

Nomological

Nomological determinism is the most common form of causal determinism and is generally synonymous with physical determinism. This is the notion that the past and the present dictate the future entirely and necessarily by rigid natural laws and that every occurrence inevitably results from prior events. Nomological determinism is sometimes illustrated by the thought experiment of Laplace's demon.[8] Although sometimes called scientific determinism, the term is a misnomer for nomological determinism.

Necessitarianism

Necessitarianism is a metaphysical principle that denies all mere possibility and maintains that there is only one possible way for the world to exist. Leucippus claimed there are no uncaused events and that everything occurs for a reason and by necessity.[9]

Predeterminism

Predeterminism is the idea that all events are determined in advance.[10][11] The concept is often argued by invoking causal determinism, implying that there is an unbroken chain of prior occurrences stretching back to the origin of the universe. In the case of predeterminism, this chain of events has been pre-established, and human actions cannot interfere with the outcomes of this pre-established chain.

Predeterminism can be categorized as a specific type of determinism when it is used to mean pre-established causal determinism.[10][12] It can also be used interchangeably with causal determinism—in the context of its capacity to determine future events.[10][13] However, predeterminism is often considered as independent of causal determinism.[14][15]

Biological

The term predeterminism is also frequently used in the context of biology and heredity, in which case it represents a form of biological determinism, sometimes called genetic determinism.[16] Biological determinism is the idea that all human behaviors, beliefs, and desires are fixed by human genetic nature.

Friedrich Nietzsche explained that human beings are "determined" by their bodies and are subject to its passions, impulses, and instincts.[17]

Fatalism

Fatalism is normally distinguished from determinism,[18] as a form of teleological determinism. Fatalism is the idea that everything is fated to happen, resulting in humans having no control over their future. Fate has arbitrary power, and does not necessarily follow any causal or deterministic laws.[7] Types of fatalism include hard theological determinism and the idea of predestination, where there is a God who determines all that humans will do. This may be accomplished through either foreknowledge of their actions, achieved through omniscience[19] or by predetermining their actions.[20]

Theological

Theological determinism is a form of determinism that holds that all events that happen are either preordained (i.e., predestined) to happen by a monotheistic deity, or are destined to occur given its omniscience. Two forms of theological determinism exist, referred to as strong and weak theological determinism.[21]

Strong theological determinism is based on the concept of a creator deity dictating all events in history: "everything that happens has been predestined to happen by an omniscient, omnipotent divinity."[22]

Weak theological determinism is based on the concept of divine foreknowledge—"because God's omniscience is perfect, what God knows about the future will inevitably happen, which means, consequently, that the future is already fixed."[23] There exist slight variations on this categorization, however. Some claim either that theological determinism requires predestination of all events and outcomes by the divinity—i.e., they do not classify the weaker version as theological determinism unless libertarian free will is assumed to be denied as a consequence—or that the weaker version does not constitute theological determinism at all.[24]

With respect to free will, "theological determinism is the thesis that God exists and has infallible knowledge of all true propositions including propositions about our future actions," more minimal criteria designed to encapsulate all forms of theological determinism.[25]

Theological determinism can also be seen as a form of causal determinism, in which the antecedent conditions are the nature and will of God.[6] Some have asserted that Augustine of Hippo introduced theological determinism into Christianity in 412 CE, whereas all prior Christian authors supported free will against Stoic and Gnostic determinism.[26] However, there are many Biblical passages that seem to support the idea of some kind of theological determinism."

I'll return to consider how these theories support and contradict the universe reality perspective presented in the Papers in their attempt to understand causes and effects, the Original Cause of the First Source and Center of creation and reality, and eternal loop of potentialities realized (becoming new causes for new effects in a perpetual engine of cause and effect.

What are the effects of a self perpetuating mechanism of evolutionary and progressive experiential perfecting dependent upon trillions of freewill personalities in time, each connected to creative and existential Deity where love is the current/currency/force of spiritization and perfecting aspiration that purifies and distilled an essence of progressive destiny that may be inevitable, and yet is clearly not predetermined, but is also predictable if the arc and trajectory of progress can be viewed with sufficient awareness of the past, the present, and both of those relative to the future???

I look forward to the thoughts of others and a dive into the UB text to consider how the UB reality perspective presents such a unifying and harmonizing integration of lucidity and reason to such fascinating philosophical wonderment!

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